{"id":2191,"date":"2007-05-03T13:21:23","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T17:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/street_fight\/"},"modified":"2007-05-03T13:21:23","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T17:21:23","slug":"street_fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/05\/street_fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you&#8217;ve missed it, MSNBC is televising a Republican presidential debate tonight.  (They&#8217;ve got a nifty debate countdown clock to remind you, lest eleven hours of pre-debate coverage isn&#8217;t enough.)<br \/>\nYesterday, Chris Matthews was warming up for his big role as debate moderator.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/18470836\/\">Here<\/a> he asks Rudy Giuliani&#8217;s campaign manager and Mit Romney&#8217;s campaign spokesperson the question on every voter&#8217;s mind:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MATTHEWS:  Who would win a street fight?  Rudy Giuliani&#8211;just think of a street fight now over in Queens somewhere.  It is a dark night, it is about 2:00 in the morning.  Two guys are out behind the building, right?  On a vacant lot.  Rudy Giuliani or President Ahmadinejad, who would win that fight?<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nMATTHEWS:  If he wins that notion, he is the next president.  That is one to look for.  Who is tougher than Ahmadinejad, because he is our biggest worry right now.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nMATTHEWS:  I want to ask you this, do you think Romney has got&#8211;can he take the&#8211;roll up the sleeves and get out there and have a street fight with Ahmadinejad?  Is he tough enough to beat Rudy at that notion of being tough?<br \/>\nGINSBERG:  Well, he would never fight Rudy.  Yes, he is tough enough to win the fight with the foreign leader, sure.  Because he is a man of principle and a man of intellect.<br \/>\nMATTHEWS:  Can&#8217;t you pronounce the name Ahmadinejad?<br \/>\nGINSBERG:  I can most of the time.  But not all of the time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, if there is one issue all voters hold in common, it&#8217;s the 2 a.m. street fight question.  Given the frequency that world leaders meet in back alleys, America needs a tough fighter.  That&#8217;s why the Draft Mike Tyson for President movement is gaining such traction.<br \/>\nJournalism at its finest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/05\/street_fight\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Street Fight\"><p>In case you&#8217;ve missed it, MSNBC is televising a Republican presidential debate tonight. (They&#8217;ve got a nifty debate countdown clock to remind you, lest eleven hours of pre-debate coverage isn&#8217;t enough.) Yesterday, Chris Matthews was warming up for his big role as debate moderator. Here he asks Rudy Giuliani&#8217;s campaign manager and Mit Romney&#8217;s campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}